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• Chat Flycatcher Bradornis infuscatus

  

  This flycatcher is common in dry savannas and scrublands of southern Africa. It drops from a low perch to catch insects and other prey on the ground.

• Red Siskin Spinus cucullatus

  Males are red and black, while females are much duller. This small finch eats fruit, seeds, and buds, and may move with seasonal rains.

• Masked Cardinal Paroaria nigrogenis

  This tanager-like bird occurs in northeastern Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It uses wetlands and mangroves near water.

• Red-browed Amazon Amazona rhodocorytha

  Adult Red-browed Amazons are green, with a red forehead and crown and blue on the throat and upper cheeks. In the wild, they eat fruits and seeds high in the trees of humid forests in eastern Brazil.

• Sombre Pigeon Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa

  The Sombre Pigeon inhabits hill and mountain forests on Sulawesi, moving quietly in the interior understory alone or in pairs.

• Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus

  A hawk ranging from Africa through South and Southeast Asia to New Guinea. It is known for catching bats in flight around dusk.

• Purple-bibbed Whitetip Urosticte benjamini

  The Purple-bibbed Whitetip was recorded visiting flowers during camera monitoring at Un poco del Chocó reserve in Pichincha Province, Ecuador. John Gould's historical account describes Ecuadorian males and females, while a 2006 taxonomic paper revisited confusion among related forms.

• Magdalena Antbird Sipia palliata

  This antbird occurs in humid forest in Colombia and Venezuela. It forages low in dense undergrowth, including around fallen logs.

• Brown Cacholote Pseudoseisura lophotes

  This roughly 26 cm ovenbird has brown plumage with chestnut tones and a darker crest. In a study at Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, pairs searched for food, including dry acacia pods and items on the ground.

• Roll's Hill Partridge Arborophila rolli

  This pheasant-family bird lives in forests of northwestern Sumatra. It has a brown, dark-marked back, a reddish-brown breast, a white belly, and bold black-and-white bars on its flanks.

• Speckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendropicos poecilolaemus

  This small woodpecker ranges from Central to East Africa. Its pale greenish back and yellowish breast with fine spots help identify it. It is recorded in forest as well as at forest edges and farmland.

• Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus

  A small owl of forests in northern North America and Eurasia. At night it waits on a perch for small animals.

• Tumbes Pewee Contopus punensis

  The Tumbes Pewee is a small flycatcher of dry to semi-humid forests in western Ecuador and Peru. It catches insects in short sallies from exposed perches.

• Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca

  This black-and-white bird breeds only on Cyprus and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Spectacled Finch Callacanthis burtoni

  A female observed in western Bhutan had conspicuous yellow-orange skin around the eye and a heavy yellowish bill.

• Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis

  The Yellow-bellied Seedeater is a small bird identified by the male's pale yellow belly and black head. It feeds on grass seeds in grassy and agricultural areas.

• Fiery-shouldered Parakeet Pyrrhura egregia

  The Fiery-shouldered Parakeet uses humid mountain forest and edges, foraging for plant material in trees. The male is described with a brownish-red head, green body, and orange-yellow wing edge.

• Russet-crowned Quail-Dove Zentrygon goldmani

  This quail-dove was studied in Panama’s montane forest, where records show ground foraging and courtship.

• Letter-winged Kite Elanus scriptus

  The Letter-winged Kite is an Australian raptor with a black mark under each wing that can look like an M or W. It is active by night as well as by day and mainly eats rodents.

• Green-bearded Helmetcrest Oxypogon guerinii

  The Green-bearded Helmetcrest is a hummingbird of the high páramo grasslands of Colombia's Eastern Andes. Males stand out for a crest and an iridescent green throat patch.

• Narrow-billed Antwren Formicivora iheringi

  This small antwren inhabits Brazilian scrub and woodland. It searches foliage for small invertebrates.

• Short-billed Canastero Asthenes baeri

  The Short-billed Canastero is a small furnariid of Argentina's open scrub and sparse woodland. Its grey-brown back and chestnut throat patch stand out, and it searches for food on the ground.

• Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus

  The Green-legged Partridge is a forest-dwelling Asian pheasant. A study in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, recorded ground nests with females incubating alone.

• Strickland's Woodpecker Leuconotopicus stricklandi

  Strickland's Woodpecker lives in the mountains of Mexico. It searches the bark of pine and oak woodland for small invertebrates.